{"id":44818,"date":"2014-06-12T06:16:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T11:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=44818"},"modified":"2014-06-12T07:39:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T12:39:00","slug":"if-planning-on-driving-in-saint-paul-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=44818","title":{"rendered":"If Planning On Driving In Saint Paul On Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s two days until the opening of the &#8220;Green Line&#8221; &#8211; and the Met Council&#8217;s toy choo choo has already been involved in four accidents. \u00a0That&#8217;s far ahead of the pace of the Ventura Trolley.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve driven down University alongside the trains; it&#8217;s more than a little bit disconcerting. \u00a0And, if you&#8217;re not really really diligent about checking your vehicle&#8217;s blind spots, potentially deadly.<\/p>\n<p>But what could possibly make it worse? \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/m.bizjournals.com\/twincities\/news\/2014\/06\/09\/summit-green-line-pub-crawl-light-rail.html?r=full\">They&#8217;re going to turn opening night into a pub crawl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right &#8211; like Uni doesn&#8217;t have enough drunks patrolling it on a Saturday night anyway&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s two days until the opening of the &#8220;Green Line&#8221; &#8211; and the Met Council&#8217;s toy choo choo has already been involved in four accidents. \u00a0That&#8217;s far ahead of the pace of the Ventura Trolley. I&#8217;ve driven down University alongside the trains; it&#8217;s more than a little bit disconcerting. \u00a0And, if you&#8217;re not really really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,104,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-trains-and-automobiles","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44818"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44825,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44818\/revisions\/44825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}